Here's the scuttlebutt: Google engineers have reportedly been working hard on mobile phone software that will hook phones into its online services.
The two Silicon Valley giants have been at odds since Google launched its Android mobile phone software, a direct challenge to Apple's popular iPhone.
Microsoft has been plugging away for five years on its Windows Mobile phone software and now has 40 devicemakers and 380, 000 developers writing for it.
Snapdragon is an application processor, which is an integral part of a smartphone and is used for giving the computing power for handling mobile phone software and applications.
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In Internet search and mobile-phone software, the company has been relegated to also-ran status, behind Google ( GOOG) and Apple ( AAPL).
Google just wanted to develop mobile-phone software that worked well, he argued, adding that existing Java-based phones at the time Android was developed were lacking.
Rubin's team is building custom mobile-phone software atop the free Linux operating system that will bind the phone tightly to Google's online applications and advertising services, sources say.
It will start to advertise Ovi in 2009, but it will not be easy to create a brand that can rival the coolness of Apple's iPhone or Google's new mobile-phone software, called Android.
GadgetTrak founder Ken Westin, for example, gave up an effort to put his mobile-phone tracking software onto Sony Ericsson handsets last year.
Hewlett-Packard has finally figured out a viable option for WebOS, the mobile phone operating system software it bought in the ill-fated acquisition of Palm.
Forging ahead despite the cell carriers' chilly reception to the whole iTunes phone concept, Apple plans to unleash its iTunes software for mobile phone by June.
CellCrypt makes software for encrypting mobile phone conversations, patching the security flaw that Hulton and Muller's research has uncovered.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is tinkering with a new version of its Windows Phone 7 software that will allow mobile payments.
But the London force is also reportedly using software that masquerades as a mobile phone network, allowing it to intercept communications and gather data about users in a targeted area, such as a demonstration.
Apple's iPhone is the first reader-friendly mobile phone, and the latest update to its software, due shortly, will enable news providers that currently give away content on the iPhone to start charging for it.
Dhillon and his team want to do to enterprise software what Apple did to the mobile phone industry.
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Samsung Electronics' award-winners include products in the TV, home theater system, mobile phone, tablet, home appliance, server, software, and computer component categories.
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From the beginning of Microsoft's mobile efforts in the PDA era, its touchscreen phone software has had a Start button and windows that could be minimized like the classic Windows desktop.
Microsoft in February lined up Flextronics, one of the world's largest phone manufacturers, to build phones running Windows Mobile software.
And Microsoft looms large as well, with its software on 140 phone models available from 160 mobile-phone carriers.
This is technically possible and secure (any amount of security software and hardware could be incorporated in a mobile phone), and it would not generate the fear of fraud that currently exists with credit cards.
The online payment service providers and the mobile phone manufacturers (particularly nowadays with smartphones where it is a software-driven market) seem genetically indisposed to interoperability among their services: they are used to working in markets where relentless competition and one-upmanship is what moves the industry forward.
It uses free software called FrontlineSMS that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a text-broadcasting hub.
The software is simple, and vaguely reminiscent of an older mobile phone.
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The Mogul doesn't look quite as futuristic or elegant as the iPhone, but it has some features Apple's phone lacks, like a removable battery, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for thumbing messages, access to a "third-generation" (3G) Internet connection for fast mobile Web access and downloadable software applications that let you turn your smart phone into a mini computer.
In October, T-Mobile began selling the G1, a handset built around Google's smart phone software.
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He speculates that it could be an app, or application software, like Siri, which lets people talk to their mobile phone and be answered.
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The software improves on an earlier version that only delivered static online information to your mobile phone.
Handhelds running its PocketPC software, such as HP's iPaq and the new T-Mobile smart phone, now claim 21% of the market.
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